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Nu. 6|7 ,500. Patented Jan. 10', I899. c EHLING. HANDLE BAR run CYCLES.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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E N ITE CARL EI-ILING, OF BREMEN, GERMANY.

HANDLE-BAR FOR CYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,500, dated January 10, 1899.

Application filed lVlareh 29, 1398.

with Handle-Bars for Cycles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object a new and improved means for raising and lowering the handle-bar while the cycle is in use. The vertical tubular stem of the handle-bar slides in the ordinary manner within the tubular extension of the steering-fork,which extension is split in its upper part and can be tightened by means of a screw in order to grip the stem of the handle-bar and to secure it in the desired position. To prevent the stem of the handle-bar from turning, it slides with one or several grooves on a corresponding number of feathers provided on the inside of the tubular extension of the steering-fork. In order to carry out my invention, I provide a stiff spring within the tubular extension of the steering-fork and rest the lower end of the stem of the handle-bar upon said spring,which tends to force the stem upward. For changing the position of the handle-bar I loosen the tightening-screw and raise or lower the stem into the desired position,thereby allowing the spring to distend or compress it. The tightening-screw is then tightened again.

In order to prevent the handle-bar from being raised by the spring too high out of the tubular extension of the fork, I provide at the upper part of the tube a spring-actuated locking-pin,which, engaging a hole provided near the lower end of the stem of the handlebar, prevents the stem from being raised farther. For lowering the handle-bar from its highest position this looking-pin has to be drawn out by hand, or if shaped accordingly is pushed outwardly by the beveled edge of the hole in the stem of the handle-bar.

In order to make my invention more readily understood, I have illustrated it on the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a front view'of my invention, partly in section. Fig. 2 shows the beveledofi front edge of pint and the corresponding Serial No. 675,566. (No model.)

beveled-0E upper edge of hole g. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section upon the line w 00 of Fig. 1. V

a is the stem of the handle-bar, sliding with grooves in on the feathers Z, provided on the inner circumference of the tubular extension of the steering-fork b.

c is the spring for raising the stem a. The upper part of the tube 19 is split, as at d, Fig. 2, and can be tightened around the stem a by means of the tightening-screw f.

t" is the locking-pin, which by the spring h is pressed toward the stem at and which e'ngages in the highest position-of the handlebar a hole g, provided in said stem a. The front end of the locking-pin 'tiS preferably beveled off, as shown in Fig. 3, and the upper edge of the hole 9 is accordingly beveled OK.

If a pin 1', as shown in Fig. 1, is used, this pin has to be drawn out by hand in order to lower the handle-bar from its highest posi tion; but in case a pin with a beveled front end, as shown in Fig. 3, is made use of it will be pushed out of the holeg by the stem ct be= ing pressed downwardly.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa l. The combination of a handlebar-stemclamping device, formed by the upper part of the tubular extension of the steering-fork being split,the tightening-screwf, the stiff spring 0 provided within the tubular extension of the steering-fork and tending to force the handlebar stem upward and the grooves and feathers 7t, Z, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of ahandle-bar-stem clamping device, formed by the upper part of the tubular extension ofthe steering-fork bein g split, the ti ghtenin g-screw f,the stiff spring 0 provided within the tubular extension of the steering-fork and tending to force the handlebar stem upward, the grooves and feathers 7c, l and a spring-actuated locking-pin v engaging in the highest position ofthe handle-bar a hole g, provided in the lower part of the handle-bar stem, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of a handlebar-stemclamping. device, formed by the upper part of the tubular extension of the steering-fork being sp1it,the tightening-sorewf, the stiff spring and having a correspondingly beveled-off up 0 provided Within the tubular extension of the per edge, as and for the purpose set forth. 1o steering-fork and tending to force the handle- Dated this 28th day of February, 1898.

' bar stem upward the *rooves and feathers 70, w T

5 Z and a spring-actuate d locking-pin 2' having CARL LHLIL a beveled-off front end, engaging in the high- XVitnesses: est position of the handlebar a hole 9, pro- J OH. XV. LUDEKE,

vided in the lower part of the handle-bar stem CARSTEN LUDEKE. 

